Fifty cities in seventeen countries have signed up to join the 1816 European Union-funded Quest (Quality management tool for Urban Energy efficient Sustainable Transport) project that will improve the quality of urban sustainable transport.
Quest’s overall goal is to set up a quality management tool for sustainable urban mobility which can be applicable for all European cities. The focus is to support cities in making progress in urban transport planning because many cities face problems to organise and manage traffic in a more sustainable way. The project focuses on midsized cities (50,000 – 300,000 inhabitants). Unlike larger cities, they often lack the knowledge and resources to prepare and implement sustainable mobility plans.
Quest has developed an audit tool which helps to evaluate the level of the sustainability of the current transport system. A tailor-made improvement programme or action plan for future urban mobility policy is set up. The tools developed in the Quest project are designed to get common commitments from different stakeholders in a city. In stakeholder meetings, moderated by a trained Quest auditor, different opinions and suggestions are balanced and consensus achieved on short- and long-term goals and measures to make the city’s transport better.
Effort is being focused primarily on cities that have only recently started activities to improve urban transport, but also others that have taken action in the past, but do not see the expected effect. Advanced forerunner cities ('champions’) have sufficient experience in sustainable mobility to come up with adequate improvements themselves and help other Quest cities through exchange of experience.
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Quest’s overall goal is to set up a quality management tool for sustainable urban mobility which can be applicable for all European cities. The focus is to support cities in making progress in urban transport planning because many cities face problems to organise and manage traffic in a more sustainable way. The project focuses on midsized cities (50,000 – 300,000 inhabitants). Unlike larger cities, they often lack the knowledge and resources to prepare and implement sustainable mobility plans.
Quest has developed an audit tool which helps to evaluate the level of the sustainability of the current transport system. A tailor-made improvement programme or action plan for future urban mobility policy is set up. The tools developed in the Quest project are designed to get common commitments from different stakeholders in a city. In stakeholder meetings, moderated by a trained Quest auditor, different opinions and suggestions are balanced and consensus achieved on short- and long-term goals and measures to make the city’s transport better.
Effort is being focused primarily on cities that have only recently started activities to improve urban transport, but also others that have taken action in the past, but do not see the expected effect. Advanced forerunner cities ('champions’) have sufficient experience in sustainable mobility to come up with adequate improvements themselves and help other Quest cities through exchange of experience.
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